7AM Friday still crickets.
C'mon Intuitive: tell us, what you've been trying?
C'mon Intuitive: tell us, what you've been trying?
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Lunar soft landing, 2-22-2024 fingers crossed.
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Ooh Ooh Ooh!
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Fri 02/23/2024 8:18 CST
Odysseus is alive and well. Flight controllers are communicating and commanding the vehicle to download science data. The lander has good telemetry and solar charging. We continue to learn more about the vehicle’s specific information (Lat/Lon), overall health, and attitude (orientation). Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus will participate in a press conference later today to discuss this historic moment. Press conference information will be coordinated with NASA and published shortly.
https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-1
Fri 02/23/2024 8:18 CST
Odysseus is alive and well. Flight controllers are communicating and commanding the vehicle to download science data. The lander has good telemetry and solar charging. We continue to learn more about the vehicle’s specific information (Lat/Lon), overall health, and attitude (orientation). Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus will participate in a press conference later today to discuss this historic moment. Press conference information will be coordinated with NASA and published shortly.
perspective?
At the peak of the Apollo program, NASA’s budget comprised over 4% of all government spending. Today, the space agency’s budget is one-tenth the size, accounting for only 0.4% of all federal spending, even as it seeks to return American astronauts to the moon under the Artemis program.
NASA is attempting to drastically reduce prices by outsourcing the design of small, robotic spacecraft to the private sector through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS. If the landing is successful, Odysseus will be the first commercial spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon.
At the peak of the Apollo program, NASA’s budget comprised over 4% of all government spending. Today, the space agency’s budget is one-tenth the size, accounting for only 0.4% of all federal spending, even as it seeks to return American astronauts to the moon under the Artemis program.
NASA is attempting to drastically reduce prices by outsourcing the design of small, robotic spacecraft to the private sector through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS. If the landing is successful, Odysseus will be the first commercial spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon.
There's a press conference at 5pm ET
It seems true our news cycle follows social media. Barbie who?View attachment 262305
Was hoping for some national news about this moon landing but unfortunately the story received much less air time than the Barbie news story
Short version; it's down and at least marginally operational.
At touchdown it had 2MPH sideways motion vs zero desired and 6MPH decent compared to 2MPH desired.
A leg collapsed so it tipped on it's side but getting some solar power.
Good news is the "down side did not have the better experiments, equipment. Still no pics.
RE the InOp navigation laser
Oops! a navigation laser safety lockout was not removed pre-flight!
An incredible scramble creating a software patch to use a NASA module's lasers for navigation!
At touchdown it had 2MPH sideways motion vs zero desired and 6MPH decent compared to 2MPH desired.
A leg collapsed so it tipped on it's side but getting some solar power.
Good news is the "down side did not have the better experiments, equipment. Still no pics.
RE the InOp navigation laser
Oops! a navigation laser safety lockout was not removed pre-flight!
An incredible scramble creating a software patch to use a NASA module's lasers for navigation!
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There are two sets of antennas, 'cuz it's on it's side, the com software is stuck in an "antenna switching loop" it see's an antenna set doesn't have great signal so shuts them off and reboots using the other set of antennas, repeat endlessly. So there are short bursts of com, the trick is getting a patch uploaded to get the lander out of the switching loop, akin to grabbing a beer out of a spinning refrigerator, HaHa. They think they are close to doing that, stopping that looping, which should allow "decent" data transmission from ONE set of antennas.
Rewriting the laser guidance code stopped the camera module from popping off the lander before touch down. They think they will soon be able to pop it out to land about 30 yards away and take some pics of the sideways lander.
GaryInVA
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I've been following this story and seems that the solar panels are pointing in the wrong direction after the tip over. Supposed to run out of battery power sometime today. Man, I'd hate to be at that root cause analysis meeting after all this is over.
